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Standard/Deluxe Comparison


General
  StandardDeluxe
Burn auto-run CD-ROMs
Import multi-media and data from
Legacy, RootsMagic, PAF, Ancestral Quest, Personal Historian
Automatic PDF support
If the person running your CD doesn't
have a PDF reader, will offer to install Adobe Acrobat for them
Burn auto-run DVD-ROMs  
Burn JPEG CD/DVD's (playable in most DVD players)  
Burn slideshow video CD/DVD's  
Easily send project to different location  
Adjustable project size
More flexible projects
(No more groups -- Histories, Pictures, etc)
Option to automatically enter project last worked on
Easily duplicate projects on the same computer
Can change location of projects on hard drive or network
Overall bigger, better, more robust, etc
Front Page Designer
  StandardDeluxe
Create Front Pages for your CD-ROM
Add Buttons that link to items or areas in your project
Buttons that will link to a specific folder
Button that searches the project
Button that will link to a web site or e-mail address
Background Music  
Welcome Sound (voice, music, sound effect, etc.)  
Option to save front page as jpeg image
Template library
(pre-made front pages to give you a jump start)
 
Can save or load front page as template
(Could e-mail editable front page to a friend)
 
Copy front page from another project
Move front page object to foreground or background
Shapes
Special Effects for buttons, text, and shapes
(drop shadow, glow, transparecy, etc)
Fancy edges for pictures  
Enhanced button library to choose from  
Ability to have "link" style buttons (no image, just text)
Handy options for aligning and spacing buttons nicely
Create your own buttons with shapes
Project Organizer
  StandardDeluxe
Add any file to your project
Organize them in folders
Easily re-arrange your folders
Enter titles and descriptions for each item
Thumbnails viewable in project organizer
Copy items to other folders
Set thumbnail for each item
Scan images directly into project  
Grab tracks from audio CD into project  
Autoplay sounds for each file, including pictures
(automatically plays when picture viewed)
 
If you add a file and the original changes,
the copy in Passage is easily updated.
Advanced Search for items in project
Search for text in title, description, even face labels
Images (Photos etc.)
  StandardDeluxe
Narration of individual photos directly from microphone  
Face Labels
Nice interface for adjusting face labels after created
Built-in image editor
(crop, rotate, brightness, contrast, colors, red-eye, etc)
 
Option to automatically size images down to bounds you define  
Print images, even with title, caption, and face labels  
Slideshows
  StandardDeluxe
Automatic slideshows on created CD-ROM
(User selects which images to view, how long, etc)
Define custom slideshows
Easily add images from project
Define time to show, transitions, etc
Background Music  
100 Transitions (fading into next picture, etc)  
Text slides
Easily create slideshow frames with great-looking text
 
Generate movie to be burned onto disc,
playable in DVD players
 
Sound
  StandardDeluxe
Comes with a Sound Library with sound and music
That you can use with your projects
 
Record autoplay sounds direct from microphone  
Play sounds and music right in software  
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